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As of November, 2010, MarkMonitor has  over 509,000 domain names under its management and safeguards the brands of companies like Facebook<ref> [http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Midmarket/Facebook-Targeted-in-Spam-Scam-603252/ E Week]</ref>,  and [[Wikimedia Foundation]];<ref>[http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:MarkMonitor Wikimedia Foundation] </ref>
 
As of November, 2010, MarkMonitor has  over 509,000 domain names under its management and safeguards the brands of companies like Facebook<ref> [http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Midmarket/Facebook-Targeted-in-Spam-Scam-603252/ E Week]</ref>,  and [[Wikimedia Foundation]];<ref>[http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:MarkMonitor Wikimedia Foundation] </ref>
 
MarkMonitor also has strategic alliances with [[Microsoft]], [[Yahoo|Yahoo!]], [[AOL|America Online Inc.]], [[Kroll]], [[The Steele Foundation]], [[Earthlink]], [[LexisNexis]], and the [[Anti-Phishing Working Group]].<ref> [http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=3786391 Bloomsberg Business Week]</ref>  
 
MarkMonitor also has strategic alliances with [[Microsoft]], [[Yahoo|Yahoo!]], [[AOL|America Online Inc.]], [[Kroll]], [[The Steele Foundation]], [[Earthlink]], [[LexisNexis]], and the [[Anti-Phishing Working Group]].<ref> [http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=3786391 Bloomsberg Business Week]</ref>  
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Mark Monitor employs robots operating from a wide range of servers hosted by major providers including Google.
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While MarkMonitor's business purpose is protection against unauthorized use of intellectual property or web resources, the company employs techniques to avoid routine digital protection measures such as [http://www.robotstxt.org/robots.txt robots.txt] files. MarkMonitor robots also routinely scrape web sites without issuing [http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html referer fields] which is considered a security risk as blank referer fields are generally associated with malicious attacks.
    
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